Every hero has a period of collapse around All Is
Lost. Boom. He’s done. And in Dark Night of the Soul, since
we’ve got his attention and he has nowhere to go anyway, this
is the moment when the “penny drops” and he says:
“I get it!” This beat reveals all the hero’s
flaws in his own eyes, and though it looks like he will never get a
chance to capitalize on this… we know better, don’t
we?